Timothy O. Dykes, Rn Email & Phone Number

United States

• Conduct facility Quality Assurance audits, Drug Storage audits, Med Pass observation and education, Narcotic Reconciliation audits, MAR / Cart audits and assisted in maintaining customers’ compliance with the.
• Regularly update and educate facility decision makers on regulatory compliance, audit forms, and quality efforts as it relates to clinical standards of practice for Long-term Care Centers.
• Educate facility Director's of Nursing and nurses on new Quality initiatives and infection control through education programs, and updated audit and survey processes.
• Proficient in Salesforce and Dynamics 365 field activity logs and account specific details. Microsoft office suite.
• Improved customer decision making on supply management which which increased financials by 10% for their departments. Managed inventory of equipment with a substantial savings to the customer while still increasing the.

United States

• Member of Nursing Leadership team and Nurse Consultant department traveling 80% for customer facing task to validate Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement.
• Conducted facility Quality Assurance audits, Drug Storage audits, Med Pass observation and education, Narcotic Reconciliation audits, MAR / Cart audits, plus maintained customers’ compliance with the applicable federal.
• Coordinated and grew department’s national Assisted Living Medication Assistance Certification Programs through consolidating, standardizing, and creating certification materials based on State’s regulations.
• Regularly updated department’s regulatory compliance, audit forms, and quality efforts as it relates to clinical standards of practice for Long-term Care Centers through education programs.
• Developed national programs, policy and procedure training materials for Nurse Consultant department including CMS regulatory updates and quality initiatives, Quality Assurance audits, Nurse Consultant education.
• Responsible for maintaining Office of Inspector General and 5-year Corporate Integrity Agreement compliance for Nurse Consultant Billing.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Accelerated Quality for a large LTC / sub-acute facility by developing internal quality review system and following nationally accepted QAPI standards and regulations that were not previously in place by evaluating and.
• Exceeded expectations for audit projects, acuities, resident care resulting in improving quality measures, and 5-star status through root cause analysis of discovered problems in the care delivery system and monitoring.
• Improved efficacy of safety committee by involving interdisciplinary team to collaborate on safety as a global picture and not just a departmental approach.
• Increased advocacy for residents and front-line professionals by routinely developing strategies and conducting meetings both one on one and in groups to determine reach and success of quality programs and standards.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Within less than three months, through the team driven initiatives moved from a grade of Sub-standard care with Provisional license to Full Licensure with numerous improvements in all areas of care delivery.
• Facilitated the team to accomplish a reduction in all clinical indicators to below industry acceptable standards and improved 5-Star Status with a 98% occupancy.
• Improved revenue by 15% through effective labor and supply management.
• Optimized management of nursing related services including survey management, MDS, budgets, staffing, and quality management through over site and matrix adherence.
• On-boarded and trained ten Senior Nursing leaders in a 160-bed Long-Term Care and Rehab center in addition to managing 40 staff nurses and more than 70 CNAs

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Transitioned from Medical/Surgical staff nurse to Emergency Room and ICU nurse; Promoted to Night Shift House Supervisor after one year and continued to work as needed in ICU and the ER as PRN
• Directed 40-50 Nurses hospital wide and full-service Emergency Room including after-hours OR and Cath Lab
• Optimized staffing, patient placement and census management, along with crisis management. Direct report to Chief Nursing Officer and/or Chief Executive Officer after hours for crisis management.
• Improved the hospital bottom line by 10% thorough labor management, supply use innovation and incident management.
• Mid-Line insertion team, ACLS, BLS